This evening on TV: one of the least loved French films… and it’s unfair!


Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: the adaptation of a comic strip on the automotive world.

As soon as his production company, EuropaCorp, was created in 1999, Luc Besson got his hands on a series of comic strips created in 1957 by the Belgian author and cartoonist Jean Graton. Published in “Le Journal de Tintin”, it is “Michel Vaillant”, a compilation of 70 albums relating the daily life of the eponymous hero, a virtuoso racing driver, undisputed champion in rallies and circuits around the world, including success arouses as much admiration as jealousy of those who measure themselves against it. For the producer Pierre Ange Le Pogam, collaborator of Besson, the ambition of his cinematographic adaptation is “to offer the public a human adventure drawn from the heart of an authentic universe“, or that of car racing.

Benefiting from a budget of 22.9 million dollars, the film is indeed betting on realism: the film crews notably joined the 24 Hours of Le Mans via the DAMS team and used a unique tracking car. , capable of pursuing the fastest craft while carrying a 35mm camera. In the title role, Sagamore Stévenin (who is collaborating for the second time with director Louis-Pascal Couvelaire) devotes himself to rigorous preparation: he meets car racers, attends a Grand Prix and even becomes Michel Neugarten’s co-driver during tests on the circuit of Dijon.

When Michel Vaillant came out in 2003, critics mainly criticized him for his Manichean aspect. It is to forget its frantic rhythm which perfectly transcribes the intoxication of speed, or its visual identity which fully assumes its comic strip origin with very saturated colors. To (re) discover this evening on the L’ÉQUIPE channel.

Michel Vaillant by Louis-Pascal Couvelaire with Sagamore Stévenin, Peter Youngblood Hills, Jean-Pierre Cassel…

Tonight on L’ÉQUIPE at 9:05 p.m.



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